"RUMBLE-!!!"
A deep, heart-shaking boom came from beneath the Star-Gazing Pavilion! It was the terrifying tremor caused by the Earth Vein Core being forcibly detonated and magma surging backward. At that instant, the entire Star-Magnetic Peak seemed to snap in half at the waist. Countless enormous rocks came tumbling down, and the once-unshakable restrictions of the Chaos Sword Domain shattered inch by inch like thin paper before the savage force rising from the depths of the earth!
Violent, dark-red magma laden with poisonous pill flame and earth fiend energy roared into the bottom floor of the Star-Gazing Pavilion through the already-ruined Purefire Channel, like a primordial beast breaking free of its shackles!
"SIZZLE-!"
The scorching heat instantly vaporized the ten-thousand-year warm jade paving the floor into wisps of bluish smoke. Magma hot enough to vaporize an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator in an instant and reduce them to ash greedily devoured everything in its path.
Han Li was at the most critical, life-or-death juncture of Sinew and Bone Tempering. Demonic backlash raged within him, and his divine soul's defenses teetered on the brink of collapse. Now, this savage torrent of earth-vein fiend energy and magma was frost piled upon snow-the final straw that would break the camel's back!
"ROAR-!!!"
An indescribable, agonized roar, seemingly rising from the hells of the Nine Netherworlds, erupted from deep in Han Li's throat! This was no longer a human cry, but the howl of a primordial beast driven into a corner!
Just as the magma was about to engulf his legs, a sudden change occurred!
The true demon qi that had been rampaging through his body, seeking to devour everything, sensed the earth-vein fiend energy-of the same origin, yet even more violent-and reacted as though it had suffered an immense provocation! A cold, arrogant hunger